TTTE OMAHA DAIIAT BEE : SUNDAY , AFIUTj 2 , 189 ! ) .
TOMORROW WE PLACE ON SALE THE ENTIRE NEW YORK
ir
146 , WEST I25TH STREET , NEW YORK.
BOUGHT FROM THE UHITED STATES MARSHAL'S AUCTIONEERS , JOSEPH SHONGOOD & SOUS. AND WHICH MUST BE CLOSED OUT TOMORROW.
$2.50 Lawn Percale and
Madras cloth f
elaborately trimmed
wrappers and house 1
gowns at
Immense Sale of
This week , beginning Monday , we will place on sale the
balance of the silks from the M. C. Spencer & Co. New York
Dry Goods House , and in order 1o close them out quick , we
will put the prices at a ridiculously low liguro. There never
was such an opportunity to buy silks of every description so
excessively under value.
5c quality striped taffeta and 27-
iuch china silk in all colors ,
wash silks , checks ,
stripes and plaids
all at
25 cents a yard
Foulard silks in all the new spring
designs and colors , fancy silks in
plain colors , black brocaded silks
all of these sold in
New York City at $1.00
on sale at 39c a yard
Evening silks in brocaded satin duchesse , black and corded
silks in all colors , including new grays and tans for spring ,
black brocaded silks , bayadere silks , satin rhadame , sold in
New York city at $1.50 yard choice at yard
WAIST STT K
VV JriLlO JL OJLJL JrK
The choicest range 7f > c quality White and cream
of the newest corded of silk inousselin silktalleta , the scarc
taffetas , checks , est article in the
stripes and plaids , de soie , city , and so stylish
everything that is in all colors , this spring , $1.00
waist silks , no matter qualityhi \ silk de
ter what the value is in silk department , partment
in our silk depart at yard at yard
ment at
at98c 29c 59c
I LINEN BARGAINS
Towels and Sheetieg
Linen Crash Toweling , 18
inches wide , worth * !
7io , yard . ;
Large Cotton Huck
Towels , the lOo kind ,
go at , each
One big counter Linen , and Damoak
Towels , drawn worked and
fringed , worth BOc , go at ,
each
Thli Is the biggest towel bargain
Omaha has 6ver known.
Heady-made Sheets ,
81x90 inches , worth
50c , at , each
Ilnon Pillow Slips , hem
stitched , worth 75c ,
each
BIG OPENINGS FOR TRADE
How American Goods Are Making Their
Way in Uruguay
POINTERS ON MONEY-MAKING VENTURES
Ircmwnrc , Cotton Gomln
and Coul Wanted lerUeU lleof
Trudc Nntlvc Muthoiln of
lliinliicnn.
( Copyright , 1S9D , tiy Frank Q. Carpenter. )
'MONTEVITJKO ' , Uruguay , March 3.
( Special Correspondence of The Bee. ) The
chle < purpose of my trip to South America
Is to look up the chances for American
trado. 1 have Investigated the conditions
In every city from Panama to nuenos Ayres ,
and I find that American goods are con
sidered the 'best ' everywhere. Wo are good
manufacturers , but bad sellers. Wo juako
the best machines , the best cottons , the beet
tools and frost drugs , but wo don't know
how to dlsjKiEO of what we mako. I have
found that the Germans , the Knglleh and the
Dolglans are boating us In every ona of
these cities. The same condition exists In
Montevideo. Wo don't got our share of fho
foreign oonvmorco of Uruguay , This coun
try ( boughtJ20.000.000 -worth of goods last
year and lesa than J2.000.000worth of this
was furnished by Yankees. The bulk of the
remainder came from Europe , It consisted
In large port of American goods , reshlppod
to this point. ( Much of it iwas made up of
Imitations of our machinery manufactured
In Gerniauy. Such things are gold down
here as of Aimorlwn make , ( or the Germans
tire 'bound ' to hold the market If they can.
This lu especially so as to sewing machines ,
Germany does the most of the 'business
supplying poor Imitations of our best known
American machines ,
A Talk with an Importer ,
The situation here In regard to American
trade was well described to mo * he other
nlglvt by Mr. Crocker , thu mauagor of one
of the biggest Importing firms of Monte
video , Ho has ( been In business here for
years and deals especially In American arti
cles , Said ho :
'There la uo doubt but that American
are the best. The people hero want
Damasks. , Etc.
36-inch Damask
Stand Covers ,
worth 75c , each . .
All linen Dresser
Scarfs , worth 35c ,
each
Hemstitched Table
Cloths , 10-4 size ,
worth
$2.50 .
Heavy Satin Damask , .54-
inch Scarfs , two
rows of open work ,
worth 75c ,
them , and notwithstanding the opposition , I
find the sale of ( bom steadily Increasing.
Wo have taken 350 tons of goods from Now
York within the past two months , and wo
expect an Increase , It is hard to get the
people to try now things , but when they get
a good article tlmy stick to It. Take , for
Instance , blue denims. Wo had great trouble
In Introducing them , but we now sell them
by the hundred of pieces. Wo have many
orders for Winchester rillea , and wo sell
all kinds ot 'American ' articles. There nro
imported into Uruguay every year more
than ono hundred and fifty different varie
ties of things from America. Nearly everyone
ono of these sells at a big proltt , and the
amount sold might be greatly Increased.
What our people need to do is to study this
market and to look upon it as their own , "
"I think our merchants are beginning to
do BO , " said I.
"That may 'be ' , " replied Mr , Crocker , "but
If so wo have no visible evidence of It. The
exporters at home lese thuusands of dollars
by not understanding what those people want
They lose vast amounts by bad packing.
The Uruguayan Importers are as sharp as the
Yankees. They take advantage of every
fault , and U they can claim rebates on any
ground they do to , Take kerosene. Wo get
U from the United States , It comes In cnnfl ,
put up in pine ibexes , If the outside boxes
are at all stained by the weather or dam
aged by handling , the laiportcru assort that
It Injures the goods nnd want a rebate. It
makes no difference \\hcther the kerosene
has leaked out or not. Why , upon a lot of
such goods received a few weeks ago rebates -
bates to the amount of more than $10,000
were demanded , and I have no doubt they
were allowed.
"Another trouble Is the matter of credit ,
The Germans and English 'will give six
I months on all orders , ami the Americans
want spot cash , They twill not eend goods
cm consignment. There should bo a largo
warehouse hare for the display of Ameri
can goods , and the big Institutions of our
country should have geode hero on consign
ment , to ibo paid for aud delivered as they
are sold. "
American .A1iiclilui > r > .
During my stay I have gone through
many of the Montevideo stores wliUh are
handling American goods. I Bee that quite
n number of our agricultural Implements
nro solJ , but am told that wo have uothlue
llko the trade In tuch things we fchould
have. Wo lead now on to plows , ibut we
The biggest bargains in high class , line dress goods ever
shown on onr bargain squares.
50 pieces of 75c quality strictly all wool twilled
dobeigos in all the new shades of gray , tan
and brown , so stylish this season , bought
to retail in New York City at 75c
yard , go at 39o yard
49c for the very best 48-inch wire twisted
storm serge , that was produced to sell at 08o /jl /r\
yard , guaranteed strictly all wool , in Arm UP !
black , navy and brown , on
sale at 40c yard
29c for choice of several lines of dress goods ,
f > 0c values , comprising desirable illuminated
poplins , in all the beautiful combinations and
colors , Scotch homespuns , every one new
spring fabrics , all on sale at 29cyard _
50cfor exceptionally good quality raised corded
black dress goods , all new designs , especially
adapted for separate skirts , on sale
at 50c yard
Black crepon , the popular thing for this
spring's wear , in large and small blister effects , many inter
woven with silk , in dress
goods department at
§ 1.39 and § 1.98 yard
Over 50 designs to select from in strictly all
wool , cloth and silk striped effects , with beau
tiful floral designs , light and dark grounds ,
from this New York stock , at 28c yard
Table Damasks.
Pure all linen Scotch
Table Damask ,
worth 50c ,
yard
Extra heavy German
Table Damask ,
worth 59c ,
yard
Immense bargain in 72-inch
Barnsley Satin Jjf3
Damask , worth $ | P
$1.25 , yard Wv
Grand special bargains In Napkins at
75c98cl.25gl,50floz ,
Most of Uiem worth double.
are 'behindhand ' In thresher * . Our reapers
are just beginning to make headway. Wo
should eend the imoat ot the hoes , rakea ,
thrashing machines and galvanized roofing ,
but Great Britain has the monopoly In all
t'heae linos. It has also the laid In Iron
and lead piping , and It islands first Inwind
mills.
I found ono make of American windmills
In Chill nnd the same make scattered all
over the 'Argentine. It was universally
conceded that the mill was far better than
the English mills , niul I see no reason why
fauch vvlniimlllfl should not ibo ( sold In Uru
guay , The 'trade should not 'bo ' confined to
ono make of windmills , ifor wo have many
other inHIn < whlch are equally cheap and
equally good.
Then an to reapers. We ship reapers to
all parts of the world , to Japan , South
A-frloa , ito Russia , and other parts of Europe.
There is no reason why wo should not have
the Iwlk of the trade here If the reaper
nuouts will work the country. An Instance
recently occurred whlcih proved the superi
ority of the American over the English
machines , One of our reaper drummers
had a sample machine here in Montevideo.
Ho was told that ho could not get orders
because the English machines had the run
of the trade. Through the aid of Consul
General Swnlm ho secured a competitive
trial of the American nnd English machines.
H was held on one of the big farms. The
two reapers wore placed aide by sldo. Then ,
before hitching up , a boy was asked by the
American to lift up the tongue of Uho Eng
lish reaper. The hey tuffgod and pulled ,
but was unable to raise it. The American
then told the boy to lift the , tongue of the
American maclilne with one luud. Ho tried
it and the tongue rose up as though it were
a "broomstick. " The agent thereupon put his
llttlo finger In the ring at the end of the
tongue and thus raised it from the ground ,
In the trial which followed he was able to
show that the American reaper would do all
the 'work of the Englliu reaper with half
the friction and with 80 per cent less weight
on the collars of the horses , The result
was that ho got that day an order for $5,000
worth of machines.
American ( ioitila Wlili'li .Should Sell ,
Consul General Swalm suggests to me that
I urge the introduction ot American elate
for roofing purposes. There is a demand for
slate rooting here , and our slates can com
pete with those of Europe.
It seems to irie , however , that there is an
even better show for galvanized iron. There
IB an enormous trade in this all over the
Parana valley. There are acrea of it spread
over the buildings of the Argentine and it
forms the chief roofing material of large
parts of Uruguay. Wo have the cheapest
iron and coal In the world , nnd we should
make this moro cheaply than any othei
country. Still , the bulk of it comes from
England , Belgium and Germany.
Germany furnishes most of the wire fenc
ing , and this is a big item In a. stock country
llko this. Uruguay Is , you know , al
most altogether given up to stock raising ,
It is putting up more and more fencing every
year , and the day will como when everyone
ono of Its 72,000 square miles will bo fenced
nnd when its 5,000,000 cows and 13,000,000
sheep will be hold in by wire. The market
IH open and our machines ought to make
that wire.
Another thing Is printing paper. Wo make
the cheapest and best of the kind , hut Mon
tevideo buys Its paper of Germany. There
are seventy-three newspapers In Uruguay , nil
iprluted on paper made in Germany. Wo
should bo first in drugs and perfumery ,
especially In drugs , for , through the electric
power at Niagara and other things , wo have
the host facilities. Still , the French stand
first , and wo come along about fifth as to
such articles. Our drugs are better pjU up
than the French. I found some American
drugs in a llttlo store in the interior of
Paraguay , nnd was told that they gave bet
tor satisfaction than any others , but that
itwas too much trouble to get them.
The Yankees have a national reputation
as a trading nation , but this reputation is
confined to their business at home. Inter
nationally they are among the poorest of all
who compote for sales in the highways of the
world , and their fame Is confined to the
making of good goods and the not knowing
how to eell them. You remember the
wooden nutmeg story. Well , it is not the
Yankees , but the Europeans , who are the
wooden nutmeg venders of today.
The Gormana sell the moat furniture ,
whereas wo have the cheapest , beet and
most stylish articles of the kind in the
world , The Uruguayans pay big prices and
want good goods , but in some way or other
the Germans get the business. Even llttlo
Belgium , a country which would not make
a pimple on the face of thu United States ,
surpasses us In the competition for the
trade of Uruguay , and it sells the very
things which we should be able to rauku
most cheaply , It has the monopoly In
scythes , iron beams and sporting guns. Our
guns are universally conceded the best , and
Wo are bhow
ing for Monday the
77 " Saa > grandest assortment of
i m now , high class , trim
med millinery , a n d
positively shown for
m the first time Monday.
$4.98 for $10 Russian Turbans and Dress
Shape IlaUs , in plain and fancy braids , black and all the new
Cyrano shades , purple and brown , trimmed with the very
best material , on sale at
$9.98 for ladies' beautiful $2.50 and $3.98 for im
tiful trimmed hats , copies of mense lot of stylish
imported models , in all the
bewildering shades of Cyrano trimmed walking hats ,
fuchsia and blue , including dress shapes , turbans and
black and white , on sale at bonnets , for Monday's sale at
12 new imported pat
tern hats and toques ,
these are exclusive in de
sign , shades perfectly
blended , material light
and pretty. This assort
ment is sure to please
the most exacting , on
sale at
there Is no reason why we should not furnish
the other articles.
AnierliMiii Conl.
I am glad to find that American coal Is at
last coming south. The coal trade of this
continent amounts really to many millions
of dollars , hut so far It lias been practically
monopolized by England and Australia.
Here at Montevideo over 200,000 tons nro
sold every year , and coal brings all the way
from $8 to $11 a ton. There Is practically
no coal cf any value on the east coast of
South America , nnd the coal of lower Chill ,
i which is not of the host quality , Is the only
I commercial coal BO fur used on the west
1 coast. The most of the steamers use Cardiff
, coal , nnd this article is used as fuel 1 > y all
| manufacturers. The coal business of Uru
guay amounts to between $1,000,000 nnd
? 2,000,000 a year. There la a Virginia coal
that Is largely used by the transatlantic
steamers , 'which ' is ifully as good as the
Cardiff coal , and a depot for the oalo of this
has been established hero. I have no doubt
that it will do n largo huslness , nnd I am
told that 'tihero ' Is n good profit in selling at
the present prices.
Moro American cotton should ho sold in
Uruguay , Just now England and Germany
have the .bulk . of this trade , making their
goods from our raw material and shipping
thorn down here for sale. We have the mo
nopoly In kerosene because the good I ord
filled the rocks of Pennsylvania , West Vir
ginia and Ohio with It , and did not put It
anywhere else < in quantities except In far-
nway Russia , nnd wo have also to a certain
extent the monopoly In timber , pitchforks ,
tar and axes. TOio timber and the tar nre
on much the same ground as the kerosene ,
nnd vo , ha\o no right to claim credit for the
fact.
i The chief things we buy in Uruguay -are
wool , hides and horse hair. We take more
than a million of their dry ox hides every
year and also a great quantity of wool.
There is nn enormous amount of money
made huro In meat and bides. Uruguay Is ,
you know , n , cattle and sheep country. It
has more cattle to its population than any
other country of the world. There are t > o
many cattle and sheep that If they were all
In ono great corral and divided among the
people every man , woman and child in
Uruguay would have six cattle and sixteen
Bhocp and if they were driven off by families
each family would be driving home thirty
cattle and eighty slice ] ) , The cattle , in
deed , are so many that they are often killed
for their hides. It is the earne with the.
horses. Every boy on an estnncla has ono or
moro horses. Beggars really go about on
horseback in the country districts of Uru
guay and the Argentine and the present of
a horse to a guest Is neither extravagant
nor uncommon.
A curious thing about the treatment of
horses in this part of the world Is that only
the males ore used for riding or driving.
A gaucho will not ride a mare. 'He would
consider It below his dignity. Mares are
used for little else than breeding and when
they grow too numerous are often killed for
their hldrs ,
I passed through ono estancla where they
killed tbo mares for hog feed. This sooniB
a big story , but It IB true. There was an
enclosure on the farm which was filled with
marcs at the time of my visit and just back
of It In a corral were at least a thousand
fat hogs. They had grown fat by eating
mare's meat , and by this time they have , 1
doubt not , consumed the in out of the marcs
I saw in the enclosure. The mares are
killed and carefully skinned. The fat is
rendered out and the meat and entrails are
thrown in the raw state to the hogs , who
fight over them and greedily devour them.
Such pork does not taste quite llko our
pork. It Is rather vealy and I confess slnco
I saw the maro-kllllng establishment I have
decided to ntlck to our hums.
Ilitf .Money in Mm I ,
Some of < the best things In South America
In the 'wny of money making are to be
found In Uruguay. I have not hoard of
anything that pajo 'belter ' than the meat
extract establishment * ) at Frny flentos , on
the Uruguay river. These establishments
have 'been ' capitalized for about $2,500,000
each , and they pay about 20 'per ' cent a
year. From a report publlbhed lost Feb
ruary I tco that the profttn In 1830 and
18'J7. ono year , amounted to moro thun
$550,000 $ , The company Is an English one
and the etock la nearly all held in I < on-
don. It kills about 200,000 cattle annually
and reduces them ito extract , caving the
hides , tallow , horns , hair and blood an.l
everything else connected with the animal
for other purposes. It takes 100 pounds
of oncat to make two and one-half pound *
of extract , ivhlch la worth at wholesale
about $1 a pound.
The work la done during seven monthi
of ithe year , and .it this time 1,000 cattle
are killed a day. The company makew It a
rule to take no animal under 4 years of age.
'The cattle uro killed ( by driving a. knlfo
into them just Iback of the horns , in the
Wew Suits , Capes
and Jackets.
All of this Spring's now styles , inado
of the host fabrics , mtui-tallored , and at
exceptionally low jiriucs.
Suite nt $12.f > 0 mndo of prro nil wool
Venetian cloth , In all the now colors ,
lined throughout with
tatletn silk , skirts nnd
waists , now flaring skirt ,
on sale at 812.50.
Suits at $5.08 , inado of tan covert
cloth , pin checks , ladies'
cloth , trimmed or plain ,
jacket silk lined , in this
sale $ r > . ! )8. )
LADIES'JACKETS ' $3.98 $ and $4,98 $ ,
Ladies' jackets made of tan covert
cloth with the now dart top fronts , silk
lined throughout , on sale at 53.03 and
S4.08.
S4.08.S3,98 and $4,98
$9.98 for extra value , very stylish ,
nobby jackets the now French coat
Karmonts , jackets lined
throughout with taffeta
silk , on sale at
89.98.
Monda
The entire lace curtain stock of M. C. Spencer & Co. , 142 to 146 West 125th Extra good quality 36-inch Bleached * ft
street , New York , is placed on sale in our drapery department. M. C. Spencer & Muslin , the 7J > c kind , go at , yard. . W
Co. are well known in ! New York for carrying the finest stock of lace curtains in Extra heavy Unbleached Muslin , worth
the metropolitan city. In Omaha we are well known as doing the largest lace Gc , yard
curtain business , and the purchase of this stock will easily maintain for us thu position as currying the largest Wamsutta Sheeting , mill lengths ,
stock and doing the largest lace curtain business in the west. VsC
from 2A lo 10 yards , for , yard. . . .
We offer tomorrow Not Fine Tapestries , Broga- We will also offer the Ono bale Berkley Cambric , full
tingham , Irish Point , telles and Wool Tapestries entire Spencer stock of pieces , no remnants , yard
Brussels and Tambour Curtains from the Spencer stock. high grade English imported One counter all the best grades white
, ,
mill ,
froods In Ions remnants worth 2Eic
tains for Monday vye will oPor the entire ed Cretonne , Denim and other Cot KO nt , yard
stock of high class drapery fabrics ton Drapery Fabrics at
at One big counter Drapery Scrim ,
a pair
and up $ 1 c yard
to 5jCJ5cj25S98yd ( | Best grade Apron Checked
Without doubt this is the biggest Gingham , yard V
Spencer sold these for Spencer's price on some of
bargain over olVored in fine up
One lot fine
big quality Drapery
draperies anywhere. to § 4.65 a yard. these was $1.00 a yard.
Cretonne , worth 15c , yard
name way that "bulls " are killed at the close
of n bull Jlfiht. It takes Just about eight
minutes to kill a ibeef. akin It and cut It
up. The skinners are paid 15 cents n head ,
After skinning the jne.it Is cut up and
stewed In 'warm ' , 'but ' not hot water. H la
Hklmmud again and again to gut off the
tit and left upon the nro until it evapor
ates Into a thin -molasses. - As It goln cold It
Jellies , when H Is packed Into 250-pound
boxes nnd Hhlppcd to Hamburg. Here It li
repacked In little porcelain Jura and shipped
all over the world. H Is claimed that a
pound of the extract Is e < iual to forty-five
pounds of meat nnd will make ulaoty
platen of coup.
Ufliihl Mcnt.
In connection with this thcro has been
now discovery made by a Uruguayan chemist ,
which may possibly supersede the ordinary
extract of beef. This IH called carne Ilcjulda ,
or liquid meat , I urn told that it combines
both the qualities of tlu > extract of meat
with the food properties of the meat Itself.
.Tho ordinary meat extracts are more tonlca
than anything else , They uro stimulants , tut
they Klvo llttlo nourishment. This nt-w
liquid meat Is not only u stimulant , but II
retains the nourishment in the meat us well ,
Its process of manufacture IB tbo wecrat of
the chemist who invented it , and It IB , I
bellovo , only made In connection with him ,
The biggest trade In moat In thu couutrlei
south of the equator Is In jerked beef ,
Uruguay gets $5,000,000 fro.ru thin every yeah
Jerked beef Is made In vast quantities In the
Argentine Republic , In 1'araguay and in
Uruguay nnd shipped to Ilrazll and the other
countries of South America and to the West
Indies. A great deal goes to Cuba , and you
will find ) t for sale nt higher prices than
those received for fresh meat In neatly every
South American market house , U la callcjd
carne tasajp , or car no eccca. The animal la
skinned nnd then cut up into strips 'and
sheets , all the bones having first been taken
out. The meut Is flmt put Into a brlno and
then rolliil out and dried In the sun , It
takes a hot sun to cure It , and for tills reaagn
such establishments are closed during ttia
winter. After it Is once dncd , however , It
\\1II last for years , needing only a thorough
soaking to tit U for use ,
FRANK 0. CAHPENTEIl.
Happy is the man or woman wlio can eat a
good , heaity meal without suffering after
ward. It you cannot do It , take Kodol Dyg.
peptla Cure. H digests whut you e t. and
cures all kinds ol Dyspepsia and
